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Books on: russian ballet

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Art in Modern Ballet

Book by George Amberg; Pantheon Books, 1946

Subjects:

Ballet, Scene Painting

Collections: Entire Library

...perform: The conservative Imperial Russian Ballet contributed a highly perfected...Russians. European ballet became Russian ballet . III THE artistic evolution...Paris as the yearly Salon. Russian Ballet had become international ballet...
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The Empire Ballet

Book by Ivor Guest; Society for Theatre Research, 1962

Subjects:

Empire Ballet Theatre--History

Collections: Entire Library

...the Diaghilev Ballet, which were expressions of Russian or Parisian taste...Lucia Cormanis ballet of the same title...Truth about the Russian Dancers , produced...quality of the ballets she appeared in...that the great Russian impresario wished...
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Adeline Genaee: A Lifetime of Ballet under Six Reigns; Based on the Personal Reminiscences of Dame Adeline Genaee-isitt, D.B.E

Book by Ivor Guest; A & C Black, 1958

Subjects:

Ballet Dancers--Denmark--Biography, Ballet Dancers--Great Britain--Biography

Collections: Entire Library

...dance. While the Russians under Diaghilev...tradition which is ballets life-blood. She...flowering of Danish ballet, had studied under...Paris Opera. The Russian School as taught...water. It was the Russian Emperor Alexander...father had written ballet music for Bournonville...
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The Lure of Perfection: Fashion and Ballet, 1780-1830

Book by Judith Chazin Bennahum; Routledge, 2004

Subjects:

Ballet--Costume--France--History--18th Century, Ballet--Costume--France--History--19th Century, Fashion--Social Aspects--France--History--18th Century, Fashion--Social Aspects--France--History--19th Century

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AcknowledgementsPreface by Violette VerdyIntroductionChapter One-Setting the Stage: Aristocratic Fashion and Baroque Body Politics before the Revolution.Chapter Two-Reformers and Philosophes as Fore-Runners of theRevolution in Fashion.Chapter Three-The Moderate and the OutrageousChapter ...
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AcknowledgementsPreface by Violette VerdyIntroductionChapter One-Setting the Stage: Aristocratic Fashion and Baroque Body Politics before the Revolution.Chapter Two-Reformers and Philosophes as Fore-Runners of theRevolution in Fashion.Chapter Three-The Moderate and the OutrageousChapter Four-Neoclassicism: 1780-1820Chapter Five-The Consulate (1799-1804) and The Empire (1804-1815) of Napoleon. Imperial Designs pervade Street and Stage Fashion.Chapter Six-Restoration-One Bourbon Returns! Louis XVIII andThe Restoration (1815-1824).Chapter Seven-Pale Goddesses on the Street During the Romantic Movement: Charles X ruled France from 1824-1830.Chapter Eight-The Kingdom of the Opera: Pale Goddesses on the Stage (1824-1830)Chapter Nine-The Turning Point: The Ballet of the Nuns," and La Sylphide.Chapter Ten-The Dark Side of WhiteConclusionChronologySources and Bibliography
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Modern Russian Composers

Book by Leonid Sabaneev, Judah A. Joffe; International Publishers, 1927

Subjects:

Music--Soviet Union--History and criticism, Musicians--Russian

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...to cultivate the ballet, choreographic music...others did, that Russian opera had been exhausted...the time Dyagileffs Ballet was making its triumphant...Europe. Indeed, the Russian conquering choreography...his newly conceived ballet, was musically written...decently ordinary Russian national tones, after...

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Journal Articles on: russian ballet

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Position Papers on the Current State of Russian Literature

Journal article by Chingiz Aitmatov; World Literature Today, Vol. 67, 1993

Subjects:

Books--Reviews, Literature, Modern--20th Century--History And Criticism

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...literature does not exist outside language, it turns out to be in an extremely unfavorable position compared to music, art, ballet, cinematography, and so on. Of course, one may presume that a certain translation and editing infrastructure will be created...
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The Great Parade: Cocteau, Picasso, Satie, Massine, Diaghilev - and T.S. Eliot

Journal article by Nancy D. Hargrove; Mosaic (Winnipeg), Vol. 31, 1998

Subjects:

Ballet--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Parade (Ballet)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Cubists "were a world apart from the Russian Ballet and its admirers; and Cocteau...Telegraph. Reviews such as "New Russian Ballet: Parade at the Empire" in the...London: Macmillan, 1968. "New Russian Ballet: Parade at the Empire" The Times...
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Dancing through the Cold War: The Case of the Nutcracker

Journal article by Catherine Gunther Kodat; Mosaic (Winnipeg), Vol. 33, 2000

Subjects:

Balanchine, George--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Ballet--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Cold War--Analysis, The Nutcracker (Ballet)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Petersburg), Anderson notes no serious Russian revisions of the ballet until after the Revolution, when...Nutcracker as "a loving exercise in Russian nostalgia. ... Central theme...consumption are literalized in the ballet: the second act is set in a ballroom...
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Ready for Work and Defense: Visual Propaganda and Soviet Women's Military Preparedness in the 1930s

Journal article by Alison Rowley; Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military, 2000

Subjects:

Motion pictures--Political aspects, Posters--Social aspects, Propaganda, Russian--History, Sex role in mass media--History, Women soldiers--Social aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...Women in the Soviet Countryside on the Eve of World War II, in Russian Peasant Women, B. Farnsworth and L. Viola, eds (New York: Oxford...24) Nina Baburina, The Soviet Arts Poster: Theatre, Cinema, Ballet, Circus 1917-1987 (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1990) 116. (25...
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T.S. Eliot and the Dance

Journal article by Nancy D. Hargrove; Journal of Modern Literature, Vol. 21, 1997

Subjects:

Literature, Modern--20th Century--History And Criticism

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...into the Imperial Ballet." The Russian Ballet in Western Europe, 1909-1920...Eliot was much devoted to the Russian Ballet in his early years in London...Now, it is a chief glory of the Russian Ballet that it has not only afforded...

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Magazine Articles on: russian ballet

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Russian Ballet, with an Australian Accent

Magazine article by Christie Taylor; Dance Magazine, Vol. 75, October 2001

Subjects:

Ballet companies--Performances, Pulcinella (Ballet)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., West Australian Ballet--Performances

Collections: Entire Library

RUSSIAN BALLET, WITH AN AUSTRALIAN ACCENT...CHRISTIE TAYLOR RUSSIAN BALLET, WITH AN AUSTRALIAN ACCENT...this seamless twelve-part ballet was part dreamy futurism...individuality in Pulcinella that the Russian works on the program paled...
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A Nutcracker Nation: An Exclusive Excerpt from Jennifer Fisher's New Book Looks at How a Russian Ballet Became an American Holiday Institution

Magazine article by Jennifer Fisher; Dance Magazine, Vol. 77, December 2003

Subjects:

Ballet--Analysis, Ballet--Excerpts, Ballet--History, Ballet--Public opinion, Ballets--Analysis, Ballets--Excerpts, Ballets--History, Ballets--Public opinion, Nutcracker Nation: How an Old World Ballet Became a Christmas Tradition in the New World (Book)--Quotations, Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich--Authorship, The Nutcracker (Ballet)--Analysis, The Nutcracker (Ballet)--History, The Nutcracker (Ballet)--Public opinion

Collections: Entire Library

...Fishers New Book Looks at How a Russian Ballet Became an American Holiday Institution...December" The Nutcracker is the ballet we love to hate--love for its classical...innovation. But by labeling the ballet a signpost on lifes journey, Buckle...
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Anna-Marie Holmes: The Russian Connection at Boston Ballet

Magazine article by Ann Barzel; Dance Magazine, Vol. 69, August 1995

Subjects:

Ballet dancers--Reports, Holmes, Anna-Marie--Reports

Collections: Entire Library

...Anna-Marie Holmes: The Russian connection at Boston Ballet. by Ann Barzel...regarded classical ballet repertoire a patina of Russian style. In the early...the tempi of that ballet. We thought it was...the thoroughness of Russian training, but when...
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Coaching, International Style: American Ballet Theatre's Russian, English, and American Coaches Take Artistry to the Next Level

Magazine article by Astrida Woods; Dance Magazine, Vol. 76, July 2002

Subjects:

American Ballet Theatre--Officials and employees, Ballet companies--Officials and employees, Ballet dancers--Training, Dance teachers--Conduct of life, Kolpakova, Irina--Conduct of life, McKenzie, Kevin--Conduct of life, Parkinson, Georgina--Conduct of life

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...style: American Ballet Theatres Russian, English, and American...their classical Russian training. Kolpakova...Petersburg; the Kiev Ballet School, where Dvorovenko...there are a fabulous Russian ballerina and a...Woods, a former ballet dancer, is the dance...
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People and Companies in the News

Magazine article; Dance Magazine, Vol. 74, May 2000

Subjects:

Aldrich, Elizabeth--Selection, appointment, resignation, etc., Choreographers--Selection, appointment, resignation, etc., Dance companies--Performances, Russian Ballet--Performances, San Francisco Performing Arts Library and Museum--Officials and employees

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...Farukh Ruzimatov and the Stars of the Russian Ballet, who pay tribute to Nijinsky May...Contemporary Dance Company ... The National Ballet of Canada has promoted Xiao Nan...principal dancer with the Royal Winnipeg Ballet, and Damien Welch, a former principal...

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Newspaper Articles on: russian ballet

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CULTURE: Light and Shade in Russian Ballet Extravaganza; ATRS REVIEW

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), January 6, 2006

Subjects:

Ballet, Ballets

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...CULTURE: Light and Shade in Russian Ballet Extravaganza; ATRS REVIEW...exactly what it is the Russian ballet companies do so brilliantly...simplicity. The corps de ballet in basic white tutus...role is a masterclass in Russian classical technique...
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Culture: High Spirit, but the Swan Dies; Producer Ellen Kent Has Teamed Up with Russian Classical Ballet Theatre to Bring Lavish Productions of Swan Lake and Coppelia to Sunderland Empire, as She Tells Tamzin Lewis

Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), January 13, 2007

Subjects:

Ballet, Ballets

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Ellen Kent Has Teamed Up with Russian Classical Ballet Theatre to Bring Lavish Productions...spent last year reshaping the Russian Classical Ballet Theatre, naturally has a...line of forming a new look Russian Classical Ballet Theatre, using top dancers...
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BALLET the Nutcracker/ Russian State Ballet of Siberia, Philharmonic Hall

Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), January 9, 2006

Subjects:

Ballet, Ballets

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

BALLET the Nutcracker/ Russian State Ballet of Siberia, Philharmonic Hall...only, the annual visit of the Russian State Ballet of Siberia. The word Siberia...themselves in one of the boxes. The Russian State Ballet of Siberia will be in Llandudno...
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It Was Absolute Agony; Hit: Russell Maliphant and Sylvie Guillem in Push Found in Translation: Bolshoi Soloist Maria Alexandrova in Wheeldon's Elsinore, a One-Act Ballet Based on Hamlet Russian Diplomacy: "The Saviour of British Dance" Christopher Wheeldon, below, and above in the Rehearsals for Elsinore in Moscow

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), July 31, 2007

Subjects:

Ballet, Ballets, Diplomacy

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Elsinore, a One-Act Ballet Based on Hamlet Russian Diplomacy: "The Saviour...fixed by his friends the Ballet Boyz (Michael Nunn and...himself in crisis. "Russians are heaven, but you...against theclock. The Ballet Boyz were in Moscow...
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Review the Nutcracker, Russian State Ballet of Siberia Philharmonic Hall

Newspaper article; Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England), January 9, 2006

Subjects:

Ballet, Ballets

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

Review the Nutcracker, Russian State Ballet of Siberia Philharmonic Hall. Byline: By Peter Grant THEY must be the best stand-up ballet company in Europe The Russian State Ballet of Siberia came back to Liverpool for just one night only...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: russian ballet

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Ballet

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Modern Ballet Renaissance Russian Ballet The renaissance in romantic...began in Russia after 1875. The Russian Imperial School of Ballet had been founded in 1738. During...See S. Lifar, A History of Russian Ballet (tr. 1955); F. Reyna, A Concise...
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New York City Ballet

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Kirstein and George Balanchine as the Ballet Society in 1946. In 1948 the company took...dancing, combining Italian, French, and Russian traditions with an austere emotional control...1990) Jerome Robbins, who were named co-ballet masters in chief. See study by L. Kirstein...
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Kirov Ballet

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...the company was originally the Imperial Russian Ballet. In 1889 it moved into the Maryinsky Theater...The company went into decline after the Russian Revolution in 1917, but the great teacher and ballet mistress Agrippina Vaganova (1879 1951...
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Nureyev, Rudolf

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...NUREYEV, RUDOLF noore yef, 1938 93, Russian ballet dancer, b. near Irkutsk, Siberian...became a soloist with the Kirov Ballet . In 1961 he defected from the Soviet...in Paris. The leading classical ballet dancer of his generation, Nureyev...
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Makarova, Natalia

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

MAKAROVA, NATALIA 1940 , Russian ballet dancer, b. Leningrad (now St. Petersburg...in 1959, and joined the Kirov Ballet . During her career there (1959...capture character in such classical ballets as Giselle (probably her most...

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